Dan Lyons blasts Mike Arrington and MG Siegler for being relatively cheap PR reps for the companies they blog about.

It's fun to read, up to a point, because he says so well what we've been thinking about these guys. But there's a problem with all this, including Lyons' post. They're changing the subject. Making it about personalities not address books.

Users are exposed, maybe millions of them, and the tech industry hasn't offered to help. Or even to stop.

Which of the apps on my iPhone is transmitting everything I think is private and to whom are they transmitting it?